Word: katia
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...Katia (Mayer-Burstyn) is a leisurely, Frenchified version of a Cecil B. deMille luxury film, which gives girlishly graceful Danielle Darrieux, in the title role, opportunity to be the intimate of still another European prince. In Mayerling, she was the mistress of Austrian Archduke Rudolf. In Katia she is the morganatic wife of Russian Emperor Alexander...
Dasha, pretty, passionate, intelligent, has come to Petersburg to study law and live with her married sister, Katia, whose husband, Smokovnikov, is a lawyer of liberal politics. In Katia's intelligentsiac salon Dasha meets the evil Bessonov, poet of despair, who has already seduced her sister and almost hypnotizes Dasha herself. Luckily for her she falls in love with the straightforward Telegin, an engineer whose only connection with the highbrow world is his menagerie of tenants, all left-wing esthetes. As first the War and then the Revolution sweep down on Russia, these human figures take on a more...